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Houston’s Mattress Mack and Lakewood Church Open Doors to Hurricane Ida Refugees, Send Truckloads of Supplies
In the wake of Hurricane Ida’s devastating toll on New Orleans, the people of Houston are opening their Texas-sized hearts and providing Texas-sized relief...
Youth is Fighting Microplastic Pollution with Magnetic Liquid After Winning Google Science Fair
A young Irishman has come up with his own "cool science-y method" to solve the microplastic pollution conundrum, winning Google's international science fair in...
Trash Company Finds $25,000 Stashed in a Discarded Freezer and Tracks Down Owners to Return Cold Hard Cash
There’s plenty a humorous tale to prove the adage “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” but when one Ohio family accidentally threw their...
Student Invents Toilet That Converts Poop into Energy – And Pays in Digital Currency if You Help to Fill it!
One man's trash is another man's treasure, they say. Well, in a South Korean school, one man's poo is another man's pennies.
The invention of...
This Bank Has Been Doing 170 Good Deeds to Celebrate Their 170th Anniversary
You can put your money where your mouth is, or you can put your money where your heart is, and for one bank headquartered...
App Lets You Buy Leftover Food From Your Favorite Restaurants—Saving 150k Meals a Day Globally
A different kind of food service app is allowing loyal customers to pay cut rates in order to rescue restaurant food before it goes...
Scientists Create World’s First Truly Biodegradable Single-use Plastic That ‘Eats Itself’ in Just 2 Weeks
Despite our efforts to sort and recycle, less than 9% of plastic gets recycled in the U.S., and most ends up in landfill or...
Resurrecting an Ancient Fabric More Precious Than Silk That Hasn’t Been Spun for Centuries
In the fantasy genre, it's popular for writers to invent some kind of special, magical material, such as "Valerian steel" from the Game of...
9 Eco Deals For Earth Day – Ways to Treat Yourself and The Planet
First celebrated 51 years ago on April 22nd, Earth Day was a holiday born of civic-mindedness, meant to celebrate nature in all her glorious...
Drop Off Your Old Socks and This Company Will Recycle Them Into Cozy Dog Beds
Smartwool designs base layers, baseball caps, leggings—basically every apparel item you could want for an active day out in nature. But what the Colorado...
Software Exec Walks 12 Miles Every Day in D.C. to Pick Up Trash During Pandemic
Billy Adams has found a lockdown ritual that not only benefits his health, but the mental health and beauty surrounding others in his beloved...
Coldplay Adopts a Barge That Plucks Plastic Out of the River –Before it Flows to the Ocean
The Ocean Cleanup project launched by a Dutch youth a decade ago to tackle the Pacific garbage patch has in recent years begun to...
Former Prisoners Turn Waste Into Beautiful Furniture, Re-Building Their Lives At the Same Time
Recycling talent and material, Formr makes quirky furniture pieces from salvaged construction site garbage while using the woodworking talent of formerly incarcerated individuals.
Operational for...
Mexico City With 9 Million People, Joins China By Enacting New Ban on Single-use Plastics and Straws in 2021
In Mexico City, after more than a year of behind-the-scenes work, a ban on single-use containers, cutlery, straws, cups, stirrers and other popular but...
13-Year-old Texas Boy Raises $6,000 to Buy Christmas Presents For Kids in Homeless Shelter
A young teen in Texas became the secret Santa for 61 homeless children, showering them with Christmas presents this year.
Jaxson Turner raised $5,900 through...
A Pandemic of Good News: The Top 50 Positive Stories of 2020
It's truly been a year like no other, yet people around the world have done so much good in 2020.
Scientists have not just been...
In ‘Huge Victory for Polar Bears’, Court Rejects Arctic Offshore Drilling Project
Now that the U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled on an offshore oil drilling project in the Arctic, polar bear protectors finally have a...
Additive That Makes Plastic Harmless Has Potential to Be Biodegrading Game-Changer
Branding itself as the only plastic that 'truly' biodegrades, a new materials company is manufacturing plastics that break down into harmless component elements in...
These Sunglasses Are Made From the First Ever Batch of Plastic Waste Recovered by the Ocean Cleanup Project
Since Boyan Slat and The Ocean Cleanup recovered the first load of garbage from the GPGP, they have managed to turn the trash into treasure.
Scientists ‘Elated’ After Finding Massive Coral Reef—The First Reef to Be Discovered in 120 Years
Scientists have discovered a massive detached coral reef that stands taller than the Empire State Building—and it is the first reef to be discovered...